Authentic Pad Thai Rice Noodles with Shrimp in Tamarind sauce

Authentic Pad Thai Rice Noodles with Shrimp in Tamarind sauce

I love this dish and eat it all the time. I travel to Thailand a lot, but only this time I realized that Pad Thai in Thailand is quite different from the Pad Thai in India. We do not make the sauce from scratch; we use the Pad Thai sauce that we buy at the supermarket and when you suffer from Gluten Intolerance the option of buying sauce from the supermarket goes out of the window and you have to make almost everything in your sanitised kitchen, but the good thing about any homemade sauce is you can control the sugar and the sodium content, making any sauce at home is far healthier than buying in a jar. And this one is actually very simple, it’s easier than making an omelette, trust me on that one. So here is the recipe, I am letting out the secret so please make me proud 🙂

Serves: 2 

Prep. Time: 10 mins

Cooking Time: 20 mins

Ingredients For Authentic Pad Thai Rice Noodles:

For the Stir Fry:

• Pad Thai Noodles: Rice noodles, pick the thickness you like. I like the broad ones.
• Eggs: 2
• Olive/ sesame oil: 3-4 tbsp
• Green Onions: Don’t chop them too fine. The broader the better.
• Onions: Sliced (Half)
• Capsicum: Thinly sliced 1
• Yellow Bell pepper: Thinly sliced 1
• Lemon: Half
• Bean Sprouts: If you have this great, if you don’t have this, then just cook without them.
• Prawns: As many you like. I cooked 8 medium-sized.

For the Sauce:

• Tamarind paste: 3-4 tsp
• Palm Sugar/brown sugar/ coconut sugar: 2 tsp
• Soy sauce: Dark Soy (Preferably) 2-3 tbsp
• Fish Sauce: 1 tsp (I don’t like the fish sauce so I skipped this)
• Sugar: 1tsp

Garnish:

• Crushed Peanuts: 2 tbsp
• Sugar: 1 Tbsp
• Thai chilli powder (Preferably. They taste yum. Don’t have a lot of heat, they are slightly sweet and hot/ Indian dry red chilli flakes.

Method:

Make the Sauce:

In a pan, pour the tamarind paste, palm sugar, soy, white sugar, and a bit of water. Mix them all together, and let them cook for a minute, when you see the sauce bubbling take them off the heat.

Prepare the Stir Fry:

In a hot pan, pour some oil, then throw in the shrimps, and let them cook for some time, when you see them turning brown, you move them to a corner of the pan and now you throw in your two beaten eggs. Scramble the eggs that keep stirring them so that they break down.

When the eggs get cooked, time for you to add the veggies and salt.

Stir fry them for a minute, then add the sauce.

Mix them well. Your noodles are almost ready.

Squeeze some lime juice, and throw in some peanuts and red chilli flakes.

Serve with more chillies and sugar. YUM!

Authentic Pad Thai Rice Noodles with Shrimp in Tamarind sauce

Recipe by KhushbooCourse: MealsCuisine: Thai

Servings

2

servings

Prep time

10

minutes

Cooking time

20

minutes

Total time

30

minutes

Ingredients

• For the Stir Fry:

• Pad Thai Noodles: Rice noodles, pick the thickness you like. I like the broad ones.

• Eggs: 2

• Olive/ sesame oil: 3-4 tbsp

• Green Onions: Don’t chop them too fine. The broader the better.

• Onions: Sliced (Half)

• Capsicum: Thinly sliced 1

• Yellow Bell pepper: Thinly sliced 1

• Lemon: Half

• Bean Sprouts: If you have this great, if you don’t have this, then just cook without them.

• Prawns: As many you like. I cooked 8 medium-sized.

• For the Sauce:

• Tamarind paste: 3-4 tsp

• Palm Sugar/brown sugar/ coconut sugar: 2 tsp

• Soy sauce: Dark Soy (Preferably) 2-3 tbsp

• Fish Sauce: 1 tsp (I don’t like the fish sauce so I skipped this)

• Sugar: 1tsp

• Garnish:

• Crushed Peanuts: 2 tbsp

• Sugar: 1 Tbsp

• Thai chilli powder (Preferably. They taste yum. Don’t have a lot of heat, they are slightly sweet and hot/ Indian dry red chilli flakes.

Directions

• Make the Sauce:
• In a pan, pour the tamarind paste, palm sugar, soy, white sugar, and a bit of water. Mix them all together, and let them cook for a minute, when you see the sauce bubbling take them off the heat.
• 
  Prepare the Stir Fry:
• In a hot pan, pour some oil, then throw in the shrimps, and let them cook for some time, when you see them turning brown, you move them to a corner of the pan and now you throw in your two beaten eggs. Scramble the eggs that keep stirring them so that they break down.
• When the eggs get cooked, time for you to add the veggies and salt.
• Stir fry them for a minute, then add the sauce.
• Mix them well. Your noodles are almost ready.
• Squeeze some lime juice, and throw in some peanuts and red chilli flakes.
• Serve with more chillies and sugar. YUM!